Burkina Faso - Social safety nets

Burkina Faso is a poor landlocked country with a narrow natural resource base and a rapidly expanding population of 15.8 million. This report, with the technical support of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), provides a detailed, updated inventory of the existing social safety net programs and suggests policy measures that could improve their coverage, efficiency, relevance, and financial sustainability. This report shows that the scope and coverage of the existing social safety net system is too limited and that most interventions are fairly small in scale and designed as temporary programs. On average, excluding fuel subsidies, spending on social safety net programs was about 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 2005 to 2009 - from 0.3 percent in 2005 to 0.9 percent in 2009, while about 20 percent of the population is food insecure and lives permanently in chronic poverty. Universal fuel subsidies are very expensive (0.7 percent of GDP in 2007) and have a very limited impact on the poorest docile (84 percent of the benefits go to the non poor). Among the remaining programs, food transfers are the main form of social safety net programs in Burkina Faso, accounting for 69 percent of total Social Safety Net (SSN) spending and over 80 percent of all estimated SSN beneficiaries in 2009 (excluding fuel subsidies). However, most of the financing for social safety net programs comes from external resources.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Social Analysis biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2011-01-31
Subjects:	ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES, ACCESS TO JUSTICE, ACUTE MALNUTRITION, ADMINISTRATIVE REGION, ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS, AGRARIAN ECONOMY, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, ANTI-POVERTY, ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, ASSISTANCE STRATEGY, ATTENDANCE RATES, BENEFICIARIES, BENEFICIARY, BENEFICIARY GROUPS, CAPACITY-BUILDING, CAPACITY-BUILDING SUPPORT, CASH TRANSFER, CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM, CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS, CASH TRANSFERS, CHILD BENEFIT, CHRONIC POVERTY, CHRONICALLY POOR, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, CONDITIONAL CASH, CONDITIONAL TRANSFERS, COST-EFFECTIVENESS, COVARIATE SHOCKS, DRINKING WATER, DROUGHT, ECONOMIC CRISIS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC POLICIES, ENROLMENT RATES, ESTIMATES OF POVERTY, EXTERNAL FINANCING, EXTERNAL SHOCKS, EXTREME POVERTY, FAMILY ALLOWANCES, FARMER, FARMERS, FEE WAIVERS, FINANCIAL CRISES, FINANCIAL CRISIS, FOOD ASSISTANCE, FOOD CONSUMPTION, FOOD INSECURITY, FOOD ITEMS, FOOD NEEDS, FOOD PRICES, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOOD PROGRAM, FOOD SALES, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD STAMPS, FOOD SUBSIDIES, FOOD TRANSFERS, FOOD VOUCHERS, FOOD-FOR-WORK, FREE FOOD, FREE HEALTH, HEALTH CARE SERVICES, HEALTH EXPENDITURES, HEALTH FINANCING, HEALTH INSURANCE, HEALTH ORGANIZATION, HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH SPENDING, HEALTH SYSTEM, HOME RATION, HOME RATIONS, HOUSEHOLD BUDGET, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD HEADS, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT, HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX, IDIOSYNCRATIC RISKS, IMPACT ON POVERTY, IN KIND TRANSFERS, INCIDENCE OF POVERTY, INCOME, INCOME REDISTRIBUTION, INCOME SHOCKS, INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES, INDIVIDUAL RISKS, INEQUALITY, INFANT MORTALITY, INFORMAL MECHANISMS, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, INTERNATIONAL AID, INTERVENTION DISTRICTS, JOB TRAINING, LABOR LAWS, LIVE BIRTHS, LIVING CONDITIONS, LIVING STANDARDS, MACROECONOMIC CRISIS, MALNOURISHED CHILDREN, MALNUTRITION, MATERNAL MORTALITY, MEANS TEST, NATIONAL POVERTY, NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS, NUTRITION PROGRAMS, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, PENSION, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POOR, POOR CHILDREN, POOR COUNTRIES, POOR HOUSEHOLD, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POOR PEOPLE, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POVERTY ANALYSIS, POVERTY DATA, POVERTY ESTIMATES, POVERTY GAP, POVERTY INCIDENCE, POVERTY INDICATORS, POVERTY INDICES, POVERTY LEVEL, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY MAPS, POVERTY PROFILE, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER, POVERTY TRAPS, PRICE SUBSIDIES, PROTECTION POLICIES, PROTECTION POLICY, PROTECTION SYSTEM, PUBLIC ACTION, PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC RESOURCES, PUBLIC SERVICES, PUBLIC TRANSFERS, PUBLIC WORKS, PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS, REDISTRIBUTIVE ROLE, REGIONAL POVERTY, RISK MANAGEMENT, RURAL, RURAL AREAS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL POOR, RURAL POPULATION, SAFETY NET INSTRUMENT, SAFETY NET MEASURES, SAFETY NET PROGRAMS, SAFETY NET SYSTEM, SAFETY NET SYSTEMS, SAVINGS, SCHOOL FEEDING, SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS, SCHOOL MEALS, SCHOOL MEALS PROGRAMS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, SERVICE QUALITY, SHOCK, SOCIAL ACTION, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, SOCIAL INSURANCE, SOCIAL INVESTMENT, SOCIAL PENSIONS, SOCIAL POLICIES, SOCIAL POLICY, SOCIAL PROGRAMS, SOCIAL PROJECTS, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL RISKS, SOCIAL SAFETY NET, SOCIAL SAFETY NETS, SOCIAL SECURITY, SOCIAL SERVICES, SOCIAL TRANSFER, SOCIAL TRANSFERS, SSN, STRUCTURAL REFORMS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TARGETED SOCIAL SAFETY NETS, TARGETING, TARGETING MECHANISMS, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TEMPORARY SUPPORT, TRANSFER PROGRAM, TRANSFER PROGRAMS, TRANSFERS IN CASH, TRANSIENT POOR, UNIVERSAL SUBSIDIES, USER FEES, VULNERABLE CHILDREN, VULNERABLE GROUPS, VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS, VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS, VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, VULNERABLE WOMEN, WAGE RATE, WELFARE INDICATORS,
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